• B / G / S – Works by Péter Borkovics, György Gáspár and Balázs Sipos glass designers. From 29 March to 19 April. Venue: FISE Gallery (1054 Budapest, Kálmán Imre utca 16.). http://www.fise.hu/
• Exhibition of works by József Pécsi Photography Grantees. From 24 March to 8 May. Venue: Mai Manó Ház (1065 Budapest, Nagymező utca 20.) www.maimano.hu
• Exhibition of the Krea Art School student's examination works (2010-11 semester). From 1 April to 21 May. Venue: gallery of the School (1061 Budapest, Október 6. utca 18. 1th floor). www.kreaiskola.hu
• Exhibition of works by Lamelos Group and Attila Stark cartoon artist. From 4 April to 2 May. Venue: kArton Gallery (1054 Budapest, Alkotmány u.18.) http://www.karton.hu/
• Random Sample – Works by Andrea Ruttka textile artist. From 31 March. Venue: VAM Design Center (1061 Budapest, Király utca 26.)
• Exhibition of works by Moholy-Nagy László Design Grantees and Kozma Lajos Applied Art Grantees 2010. From 25 February 2011 to 3 April 2011. Venue: Museum of Applied Art Budapest. www.imm.hu
• Exhibition of works by Kinga Dózsa-Farkas designer. From 22 March to 10 April 2011. Venue: Headquarters of Magyar Újságírók Országos Szövetsége (The Association of Hungarian Journalists, 1064 Budapest, VI. ker., Vörösmarty u. 47/A.) http://www.dfdt.de/
• Turning Tourists – Exhibition of works by Luc Degryse belgian animation artist. From 24 March to 22 April. Venue: Ponton Gallery – Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (1015 Budapest, Batthyány u. 65.) www.mome.hu
• "Premier" – Exhibition of works by new members of  National Association of Hungarian Artists. From 23 March to 3 April 2011. Venue: Duna Gallery (1133 Budapest, Pannónia u. 95.).
• Costumes on the Wall – Works by Andrea Ruttka textile designer. From 9 February 2011 to 19 April. Venue: Hadik Kávéház Gallery (1111 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 36-38.)

Sony has announced the winners of the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards Open contest. The Fashion category winner is Edina Csoboth from Hungary.

Beating competition from over 51,000 submissions from 148 counties, the winners are:

• Action: Chan Kwok Hung (Hong Kong)
• After Dark: Chumlong Nilkon (Thailand)
• Architecture: Marek Troszczynski (Poland)
• Arts & Culture: Hubert Januar (Indonesia)
• Fashion: Edina Csoboth (Hungary)
• Nature & Wildlife: Andiyan Lutfi (Indonesia)
• Panoramic: Wolfgang Weinhardt (Germany)
• People: Raghuranjan Sarkar (India)
• Smile: Carlos Henrique Reinesch (Brazil)
• Travel: James Chong (Singapore)

All the winning images will be exhibited as part of the World Photography Festival at London’s Somerset House from 26 April – 22 May alongside the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards Professional competition. The photographs will also be published in the Winner’s Book and each winning Open photographer will receive Sony digital SLR camera equipment as part of their prize.

The overall winner of the Sony World Photography Awards Open Photographer of the Year title will be announced on 27 April at a gala ceremony held at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. Also at the ceremony, the winner of the coveted L’Iris D’Or / Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year will be announced. The final presentation of the night will be in honour of the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography.

• Exhibition of works by Moholy-Nagy László Design Grantees and Kozma Lajos Applied Art Grantees 2010. From 25 February 2011 to 3 April 2011. Venue: Museum of Applied Art Budapest. www.imm.hu
• Exhibition of works by Kinga Dózsa-Farkas designer. From 22 March to 10 April 2011. Venue: Headquarters of Magyar Újságírók Országos Szövetsége (The Association of Hungarian Journalists, 1064 Budapest, VI. ker., Vörösmarty u. 47/A.) http://www.dfdt.de/
• Turning Tourists – Exhibition of works by Luc Degryse belgian animation artist. From 24 March to 22 April. Venue: Ponton Gallery – Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (1015 Budapest, Batthyány u. 65.)
• "Premier" – Exhibition of works by new members of  National Association of Hungarian Artists. From 23 March to 3 April 2011. Venue: Duna Gallery (1133 Budapest, Pannónia u. 95.).
• Costumes on the Wall – Works by Andrea Ruttka textile designer. From 9 February 2011 to 19 April. Venue: Hadik Kávéház Gallery (1111 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 36-38.)
• Spring Snow with Spiral – Exhibition of work by Satoru Hoshino japanese ceramist. From 17 March to 25 March. Venue: Museion No. 1 Galéria (1091 Budapest, Üllői út 3.). www.icshu.org; www.kitsa.org
• Exhibition of work by Melinda Vajda graphic designer From 8 March to 26 March . Venue: Fise Gallery (Association of Young Artists’ and Designers’ Studio, 1054 Budapest, Kálmán Imre utca 16.)

WAMP is a community event taking place once or more than once a month in the hub of Budapest where emerging Hungarian designers showcase their works. A place where design meets urban hungarians, tourists and ex pats.

• The next WAMP date: 20th of March, 10.00-18.00
  Venue: Millenáris, B hall (H–1024 Budapest, Kis Rókus u. 16–20. )

Selected, young designers will built their own little showrooms on the gallery of the B hall, where they will introduce their spring-summer collection! A few names from the new generation of design, who will be there for sure: Vágó Réka, Mojzes Dóra, Hegedűs Zsanett-AIAIE, Zoe Phobic, Fehér Design, Zagabo, Non+, Imago Mundi, Artista, Schilling Kolos.

Since spring is here, we would like to greet it and all of you with a special scent exhibition! Zsolt Zólyomi perfume expert will wait for everyone on the gallery who would like to discover which odour fits them the best.

Welcome to the Lomography corner at WAMP, where you can try out the different analoge cameras! Play with them / with us and we'll make sure that you won't leave with an empty hand!

The WAMP Designer of the Month: Szilvia Kauker

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More info: www.wamp.hu

HuBa (Hungarian Bazaar) exists to promote Hungarian applied artists and designers of various fields outside Hungary. HuBa’s mission is to help new designs/labels/brands or individual artists reach an international audience in Europe and in Japan. The notion of HuBa came after we have recognised costs prohibit fresh talents to participate at trade fairs abroad which is where the HuBa exhibition plays a vital part.

The next Hungarian Bazaar trade fair is:
HuBa fair Vienna
Location: Kunstfabrik, Vienna, Deinleingasse 3 A-1220
Date: May 14-15, 2011

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Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME) and Európa Pont – the new EU information and cultural centre – invite you to participate in a photo and video competition if you think you have a flair for photography, film or graphic design. We were wondering how you might capture essence of „Magyarness“ that surrounds you day by day. If you can show us your best visual impression of this „Magyarness“ do not hesitate to send us that picture/video/animation. But try to stay away from stereotypes; we want your unique insight, not a person spooning down Gulyás soup next to his Rubik’s cube in the puszta.

Your entry can be as abstract or as literal as you please in your chosen medium as long as it tells us something about what captured your imagination in Hungary the most, what you came to recognize as a Magyarness. There will be 4 categories in the competition, but we are positive that your artwork will relate to one of these. If you do not have a solid idea yet, let these inspire you. Sometimes black, often far from polite, but never boring. Did you tap into what makes them laugh? And what is it you find funny about your experiences in Hungary?

Winning entries will be exhibited in Európa Pont and at one of the biggest summer festivals in Budapest. The main price is a trip to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (travel expenses and accreditation).

Deadline for submission: 31 April 2011

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The first bilingual MA degree level courses are to be launched in September 2011 at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.
The planned courses in English:
Animation MA
Photography MA
Product Design - Vehicle Design MA
For more information about curriculum, tuition fees and application, please visit MOME website later.

Madeinhungary is an independent, non-profit exhibition, which introduces Hungarian designers and craftsmen to the public. Since 2005, it has been held together annually with the Home Trend & Design exhibition, organized by textile designer Szilvia Szigeti and interior designer Tamás Radnóti.
The madeinhungary section is close in spirit to the Milanese Salon di Mobile: while the former focuses on Hungarian art novelties, the latter focuses on foreign ones, with exciting vocational programmes, fashion shows and concerts.
The madeinhungary section provides an overview of the works of Hungarian artists and craftsmen who work in different fields of design, presenting their products in individual- and limited series, and using various industrial processes. The exhibition is of particular importance, especially in today’s economic situation, when the designers – who in many cases do not have the proper industrial background and are struggling with a serious shortage of funds - develop their own collections individually. This time, the event will draw attention to those designers who are devoted to Hungarian material culture by presenting a variety works by almost 50 artists. The exhibition of course focuses on the artists whose works are closely related to interior furnishing, for example, furniture designers, interior designers, textile designers, ceramists, glass painters, goldsmiths, and so on.
Being true to previous years’ traditions, jewellery designers will present their products too.
This time, according to the final results of the restricted tender which was supported by PannonArts Gallery, 10 contemporary jewellery designers will introduce themselves.

http://www.madeinhungary.co.hu/

In March 2005 the 1st International Triennial of Silicate Arts was held in the Hungarian town of Kecskemét. Organised by the International Ceramics Studio, a world famous ceramic art centre and the Foundation for Contemporary Ceramic Arts. From an idea originated by János Probstner, founder and director of the ICS, this is a new internatinal exhibition and competition focussing on the silicate arts of ceramics, porcelain, glass and concrete.

The aims of the International Silicate Triennial are to stimulate both fine and applied artists to create interesting and innovative objects and to give scope to the industrial and artistic application of new materials and technologies, encouraging the widening of directions in 21st century silicate arts.

We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that the 3rd International Silicate Arts Triennial will again take place in Kecskemét, Hungary in August 2011 and we hope it will build on the success of this first competition and become a major part of the international exhibition forum. Information and application forms for the 3rd Triennial will be available on our website from June 2010 and the application deadline will be 31st March 2011.

Organised by the Foundation for Contemporary Ceramic Arts and the International Ceramics Studio.

Details will be available on this website as they are confirmed. Application forms are available for download on the conditions page

The exhibition of works by Moholy-Nagy László Design Grantees and Kozma Lajos Applied Art Grantees 2010 will be open to the public from 25 February 2010 to 3 April 2011 in Museum of Applied Art Budapest. www.imm.hu

The Moholy-Nagy Design Grant was founded in 1988 by three ministries on the initiative of the Industrial Design Council. The basic objectives were to contribute to the flourishing of Hungarian material culture, to raise the competitiveness of the Hungarian economy through the integration of design into innovation and last but not least to promote the professional development of talented designers. Over the past two decades a total of 145 talented designers have received grants to help them start their careers.

• CERative group: Metamorphoses – exhibition of works by young porcelain and ceramic designers – Diána Fülöp, Enikő Kontor, Anita Molnár, Tünde Ruzicska. From 15 February to 5 March. Venue: FISE Galéria (1054 Budapest, Kálmán Imre utca 16.).
• Aspects – posters and space graphics by Ferenc Baráth graphic designer. From 10 February to 6 March. Venue: Budapest Galéria Kiállítóterme (1056 Budapest, Szabad sajtó út 5.)
• Exhibition of works by Zoltán Bohus glass designer. From 2 February to 10 March. Venue: Vízivárosi Galéria (1027 Budapest, Kapás u. 55.)
• Attention – exhibition of works by new members of Studio of Young Photographers. From 1 February to 10 March. Venue: ArtBázis (1085 Budapest Horánszky u. 25.)
• Exhibition of works by Anna Latin textile and fashion designer. From 1 February to 25 February. Venue: Fészek Galéria (1073 Budapest, Kertész u. 36.)
• Fifty years – works by Rozi Antoni and László Nádas designers. From 27 January to 18 February. Venue: Árkád Galéria (Budapest, VII. Rákóczi út 30.)
• Persian art and handicraft in the Qajar Era. From 28 January to 20 March. Venue: Museum of Applied Art Budapest

• Amnesia Temporis – Photographs by Endre Kovács. From 28 January to 210 March. Venue: Kiscelli Múzeum Oratórium (1037 Budapest, Kiscelli utca 108.)

• Forty years - exhibition of works by József Scherer designer. From 20 January to 15 February. Venue: Klebelsberg Kultúrkúria 1028 Budapest, Templom u. 2-10.

• Exhibition of work by Antal Révész painter and graphic designer. From 15 February 2011 to 18 March 2011. Venue: M Galéria (Marczibányi Téri Művelődési Központ; 1022 Budapest, Marczibányi tér 5/a.)

• Fritzinger's Comic Jam – Exhibition of works by Zoltán Fritz and Mátyás Lanczinger comics designers 15 February 2011 to 21 March 2011. Venue: kArton Galéria (1054 Budapest, Alkotmány u. 18.)

• Costumes on the Wall – Works by Andrea Ruttka textile designer. From 9 February 2011 to 19 April. Venue: Hadik Kávéház Gallery (1111 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 36-38.)

• Plan and Creation – Exhibition of applied art works of János Vaszary. From 21 January 2011 to 10 March 2011. Venue: Országos Széchenyi Könyvtár (National Széchenyi Library)

• Exhibition of works by Moholy-Nagy László Design Grantees and Kozma Lajos Applied Art Grantees 2010. From 25 February 2011 to 3 April 2011. Venue: Museum of Applied Art Budapest. www.imm.hu

• Laarka Spring Exhibition - Works by Boglarka Csömör fashion designer, the owner of Laarka brand. From 23 February 2011 to 30 March 2011. Venue: Salon de Bohéme Contemporary fashion & Fragrance Showroom (Szentendre, Péter - Pál utca 2/b). www.laarka.hu

Due to bad weather conditions all flights scheduled for the afternoon and the evening on February 1st from New York airports were cancelled, Karim Rashid could not leave, so the date of his visit to Budpaest had to be postponed with one day. Thus his lecture at the Auditorium of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design takes place on February 3rd from 16:00. Thanks for your understanding, we count on your participation at the lecture.

Karim Rashid is visiting Budapest on 2 February 2011 to deliver an almost 90 minute public presentation on his works to an audience of 500, give interviews to illustrious design magazines and Internet portals, present a DJ show at Ötkert and meet the representatives of the Hungarian design scene. The inviting party includes noteworthy professional institutions like the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office, the Hungarian Design Council, Design Terminal and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. 

Egyptian-born, New York resident Karim Rashid is a true 21^st century creator, whose objects, interior designs and art projects grab the essence and atmosphere of digital culture. He reflects the zeitgeist both in form and function, for Rashid is not only a devout adherent of leading-edge technical novelties and a fan of plastics, but their conscious and environmentally aware user as well. His works are generally characterised as pieces of sensitive minimalism – a term he invented in the mid 90s, while his style is defined as sensualism.

He’s designed more than 3000 objects ranging from watches through DJ desks to dozens of furniture and carpets. Besides the New York restaurants and bars he designed, there are numerous, immediately recognisable places and hotels with a sort of brand patent with “Rashid trait” in many places around the world. The topmost common feature of his dynamic and colourful world is the use of round shapes. The objects – or blobjects as Rashid puts it – often resembling drops of water or bubbles present a sui generis, organic world. This mode of expression doesn’t recall the natural motifs of the 50s anymore, but rather expresses some sort of plasticity one feels when using the objects. The all-pervasive sensuality, or technically speaking sensualism displays a kind of post-pop character turned into a vividly flourishing cyber-whirl by typical contours and vibrant shades and graphic, often sacral symbols.

• Presentation of Karim Rashid

2^nd February 2011, 16:00

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, 12^th district, Zugligeti street 9-25.

Note: the language of the presentation is English, no translation is provided!

• Karim Rashid DJ show

2^nd February 2011, 23.00

Ötkert, Budapest, 5^th district, Zrínyi street 4.

• Karim Rashid mini exhibition

2^nd - 5^th February 2011

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, 12^th district, Zugligeti street 9-25.

Exhibition at the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism from 14 January 2011 to 14 February 2011.
Last years the two elements of Japanese subculture, the manga and the anime have become very popular all over the world. The pourpose of this exhibition to show the world of the Japenese comics and animations. These characters are there of the japanese children and adult’s life. They are shown on the season tickets, the phones, the covers and the mascots.

But what kinds of characters are these.? Why did they pop up and why they are so popular? What firms do keep back? You can find the answers to these questions here and now.

Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism 1051 Budapest, Szent István tér 15.

www.mkvm.hu

This year's co-winner of the biannual Lucien Hervé and Rodolf Hervé prize is Ákos Czigány (sharing it with the French photographer Alexis Cordesse). In 2010, Association Lucien Hervé et Rodolf Hervé annonced the prize on „The Language Of The City”, to which Ákos Czigány Ákos submitted his series titled „Skies - hommage á Hiroshi Sugimoto”. Ákos Czigány's works will be exhibited at French Institute Budapest from 14 January 2011 to 18 February 2011.
Following the initial selection by a committee of international experts, the jury decided on the winners from among the portfolios of 18 French and Hungarian photo artists.

The prizes will be handed out at the opening of the prize-winning works on November 16, 2010 at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, under the auspices of the local month of photography: the „Mois de la Photo”.

This international prize, announced for the fourth time, aims at promoting the introduction of young photographers and strengthening photography's foothold in the sphere of culture, with special reagrd to the link between photography and architecture.
The mood of the buildings appearing in the pictures of Czigány's series might be familiar to us all, yet the rigorous edition and concentrated composition draws attention to something very different, making use of the emptiness filled with light, albeit embraced by the buildings that are part of our lives. In the given aperture another aperture appears, leading us to new directions. Light has basically some metaphysical content for Ákos Czigány, a content in which emptiness and overwhelming are simultaneously present.

Viewing his pictures from the content aspect, we awe awestruck by the exceptional elegance yet stubborn consistence with which Czigány builds the visual world of archtitectural environment. His recent works take the viewer to a mystical world lined with light.

Source: Nessim Galéria

An exhibition of selected works by Lucien Hervé will run from 27 October 2010 to 23 January 2011 at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts commemorating the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth. Some one hundred photographs recently added to the museum’s collection as well as a large number of documents to be displayed for the public for the very first time will focus on the architectural photography of the Hungarian-born Lucien Hervé, while also providing a review of his entire oeuvre. The exhibition is also a highlighted programme of the Hungarian Month of Photography 2010.

Lucien Hervé 100 will be the first exhibition in Hungary devoted entirely to the oeuvre of the photographer, who passed away three years ago. The show will presented Hervé’s art not only through known and recognised photographic pieces but also through unknown works and even some that have not been displayed before. Thanks to scholarly research visitors can now also see documents that place the artist’s activity, working method and network of relations into a wider context and through the numerous new findings will also attract the interest of those who are already well-versed in the photographer’s work. The exhibition to run through 23 January is also a highlighted programme of the Hungarian Month of Photography 2010.

Szépművészeti Múzeum – Budapest XIV., Dózsa György út 41. Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday 10 am -5,30 pm (cashier until 4.30 pm). Closed on Mondays.

In December there will be three WAMPs in a raw at Millenáris, and each and every one of them will be at least two times bigger than the usual ones. There will be more than 200 designers and thanks to the organization of Lila Füge  – who is a well known gastro blogger – there will be a whole gastro section, representing all kind of design-gastro treats: chocolates, wines, olive oils, chutney, confectioneries, cookbooks.

So be prepared for overabundance which is not a bad thing, if you think about – especially around Christmas! It is always good to know that there are plenty of fresh, unique design objects that you can choose from! Tool up your trailer – but it is worthy of note that after you have packed it, you can also have all the presents wrapped into fancy design wrapping!

It is also possible to collect some ideas or presents even earlier! Thanks to the enthusiastic designers, from the 1st of December we will organise a special Advent Selection on WAMP Facebook page. Each day a new design object will appear – just like in a advent calendar – that you can buy at a 20% percent off at the fairs, or you could even win some of them!

5th, 12th and 19th of December, 2010
Millenáris Budapest – B hall
10.00 – 20.00

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The entries for this year’s Artzept Design competition were, as always, of the highest possible standard, making the selection of one overall winner difficult indeed. The theme for the Artzept International Design Award 2010 is Fruttiera, a stemmed fruit dish for holding and displaying fruit.

On 29th October the jury, composed of some of the top names from the world of design, gathered in Milan, Italy, to discern the winner of the 2010 inspired theme Artzept Competition – Fruttiera. The Elite Artzept jury included well-respected members of the Art and Design worlds, with established reputations and design experience with some of the biggest brands in the world. Professor Borek Sipek, the president of the jury as well as an architect and designer, Gordana Biba Markovic, art historian, art critic and Artzept art director and the designer Carlo Magnoli.

Pieces of design came from far and wide. From Hungary to Poland, from the Czech Republic to Russia to compete for the coveted first prize of 10,000 €. The works are judged on their ability to fulfil the following conditions “the best works had to be first and foremost functional, as well as artistic and aesthetically pleasing, and preferably progressive and environmentally aware.”

The jury’s decision awarded:

• 1st Prize - 10,000 € to István Bársony and Miklos Leits, Hungary
• 2nd Prize - 4,000 € worth of Zepter products to Anastasia Chernyaeva, Russia
• 3rd Prize - 3,000 € worth of Zepter products to Marta Mulawa-Kilarska, Poland

Each jury member also decided to give honourable mentions to:

• Marta Jędrzejewska, Poland (chosen by Borek Sipek)
• Adam Dallos, Hungary (chosen by Biba Markovic)
• Andrea Liberni, Italy (chosen by Carlo Magnoli)

The award ceremony took place in Milan, on the 4th November 2010. The best works will be exposed in a travelling exhibition organised by Zepter International to be hosted in selected retail outlets in major cities around the world, and will be featured in an exhibition catalogue.
http://www.artzept.com/?&m=160

’According to our intention, originating from ten years ago, our festival is organized on a biannual basis. We are now proud to invite you to PhotoMonth 2010. This time it has not been an easy start, though. Economic disease has hindered the implementation of many a cultural event this past year. Still we have persisted and supported by our partners’ perseverance we have succeeded in providing for the continuity of the event.
Our colleagues at the Museum of Fine Arts, honoring the value of outstanding accomplishments in the field of photographic art, have undertaken to bring about a life-achievement exhibition in memory of Lucien Hervé whose onehundredth birth-anniversary is celebrated this year. In addition to this central event, November will also bring along several further exhibitions of equal standing: works by Martin Munkácsi will be showcased in the Ludwig Museum, while the exhibition by Károly Escher in the Mai Manó Ház is also expected to raise much public appeal. Besides these glimpses at the classic, the Festival offersinsights into several contemporary endeavors, both Hungarian and international.
As a founding member of Photofestival Union it is our ongoing intention to implement our projects in an international context. Accordingly, we are launching Fotóporta 6., providing an opportunity for photographers to introduce their works to domestic and international experts in the frame of a portfolio review session. This brochure is intended to assist visitors to navigate the maze of events PhotoMonth 2010 is bringing to the city.’ Zsolt Szamódy – Festival Manager

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The 2010 Architectural Model Festival investigates the relationship of designer practices and cultural infrastructure.

Museums and art institutions have been at the forefront of recent urban development programs, establishing new nodes in the global network of cities. This trend has also shifted the role of such establishments from sites representing static national and local identities to open and activist public platforms inviting discourses on the cultures and identities of modern democracies.

The main topics of the festival explore this process through introducing current issues of Hungarian institutions and their architecture, and by raising internationally new, so far undeveloped issues. These themes also develop links between shared discourses of the architectural model as a genre and the museum as a platform.

The first topic represents significant projects and visions in contemporary museum architecture through models and presentations. The second topic investigates the transformation of the museum as an institution and public forum, using the model as a tool to analyze and represent complex relationships. The third topic explores the role of models and prototypes in design by showcasing traditional and cutting edge fabrication technologies in a hands-on, workshop environment.

2010. november 13-16. Venue: Műcsarnok Budapest

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